Earth Day Roda
To celebrate “Earth Day Tokyo 2008″ Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japan will be holding an open roda on Sunday, April 20th. So come on down to Tachikawa Showa Kinen Koen – Midori no Bunka (Green Culture) Center and let’s enjoy a day of fresh air, green grass, and capoeira.
After the roda we’ll go out for dinner. Whoever forgets to bring their “My Hashi” has to pay for someone else!
Date: Sunday 20th, April
Time: 1.30pm-5pm
Location: Tachikawa Showa Kinen Koen – Midori no Bunka Center
Cost: FREE (no entry fee required)
Access: 10 minutes walk from JR Tachikawa Station Map, Google Map
Bring your “My Hashi”
No Smoking Please
All over the world people will be celebrating our environment on Earth Day and thinking of ways they can save the earth. One way you can help save the earth here in Japan is by refusing to use Waribashi (disposable chopsticks).
The humble waribashi – disposable wooden, or literally ’split-apart’ chopsticks. Japan consumes a massive 25 billion sets of them every year – about 200 pairs per person.
Get your own pair of “My Hashi” and take them with you everywhere you go. There are thousands of shops where you can get your own portable chopsticks, from the 100yen variety to the now highly fashionable “My Hashi” online store, or collapsible chopsticks you can wear around your neck. Just pop into your local bento shop and have a look around. There are boundless designs to capture your heart, from Hello Kitty to Doraemon, Sakura to Mt. Fuji.
The most important Japanese phrase every visitor and local should know and use is “そのままで” (sono mama de – as it is). Use this one before the shop clerk wraps up your purchase in another one of the horrible plastics bags.
If you’re not convinced you should be doing something, then the movie you should watch is Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. Get the DVD, or watch it online somewhere.
Another environmental movie you can watch online right now is “The Story of Stuff”. It’s only 20 minutes long, but packed full of important information.
It only rained a little bit, and that quickly cleared up and the sun came out to bless us with a really fun roda and some acro training.
We hope more Bantulinos make it down for the roda next time.
And it was great to see everyone brought their own chopsticks to dinner! Yeah!
Bantus Capoeira Axé!